Inspirational Quotes For AllOccasions
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Introduction
Welcome to this collection ofmotivational and inspirational quotes. Collected from various booksand different authors, these quotes are full of wisdom you need toshape your character and ensure you succeed in your private, socialand professional life. Enjoy!
Chapter 1 ~ Quotations AboutForgiveness
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, isonly another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness oughtto be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so thatit never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violetsheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
Once a woman has forgiven her man, shemust not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~MarleneDietrich
It's easier to ask forgiveness than itis to get permission. ~Grace Hopper
The weak can never forgive. Forgivenessis the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi
To forgive is to set a prisoner freeand discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes,"Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warmsthe heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness does not change the past,but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
You can make up a quarrel, but it willalways show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country TownSayings, 1911
It is easier to forgive an enemy thanto forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.~Isaac Friedmann
[A]ll forgiveness is a gift toyourself. ~A Course in Miracles
Forgive all who have offended you, notfor them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridgeover which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert
There's no point in burying a hatchetif you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~SydneyHarris
Nobody forgets where he buried thehatchet. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast,1930
Yes, this is what good is: to forgiveevil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943,translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The man who forgives is far strongerthan the man who fights. ~Nathan Croall
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.~Norman Cousins
What we forgive too freely doesn't stayforgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook,1960
It's far easier to forgive an enemyafter you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller
Forgiving is love's toughest work, andlove's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was nevermeant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferablemanipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense offairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. Butforgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B.Smedes
There is no revenge so complete asforgiveness. ~Josh Billings
Without forgiveness life is governedby... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~RobertoAssagioli
One thing you will probably rememberwell is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P.Jones
Never does the human soul appear sostrong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.~E.H. Chapin
Always forgive your enemies - nothingannoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde
Chapter 2 ~ Quotations AboutFate
Life is like a game of cards. The handyou are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.~Jawaharlal Nehru
Lots of folks confuse bad managementwith destiny. ~Kin Hubbard
Failure and success seem to have beenallotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power ofwriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in thewhole universe the only really interesting movement is thiswriggle. ~E.M. Forester
If fate means you to lose, give him agood fight anyhow. ~William McFee
There's much to be said for challengingfate instead of ducking behind it. ~Diana Trilling
He that is born to be hanged shallnever be drowned. ~Author Unknown
Fate laughs at probabilities. ~E.G.Bulwer-Lytton
They... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conqueredFate.
~Matthew Arnold, "Resignation,"1849
A door that seems to stand open must bea man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.~Henry Ward Beecher
A person often meets his destiny on theroad he took to avoid it. ~Jean de La Fontaine
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep -and anywhere else it is needed. ~Jessi Lane Adams
We cannot bear to regard ourselvessimply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feelingourselves abandoned. ~Ugo Betti, Struggle till Dawn,1949
You know that saying, that when Godcloses a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowherehe'll do you one better and he'll kick a whole wall down. ~Glee,"Furt" (season 2, episode 8, original airdate November 23, 2010),written by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, spoken bythe character Burt Hummel
Sometimes what we believe ascoincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angelbooby trap. ~Terri Guillemets
There is an unseen life that dreams us.It knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselvesmore than we realize and we need have no fear of change. ~JohnO'Donohue
Again, you can't connect the dotslooking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. Soyou have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in yourfuture. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life,karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it hasmade all the difference in my life. ~Steve Jobs
Destiny = our free will + God's freewill ~Terri Guillemets
Fate is like a strange, unpopularrestaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you neverasked for and don't always like. ~Lemony Snicket
Coincidence is God's way of remaininganonymous. ~Albert Einstein
You are fate's shadow or fate's sun,depending on which way you turn. ~Terri Guillemets
I have a wife, I have sons: all of themhostages given to fate. ~Lucan
The place you are right now
God circled on a map foryou.
~Hfez
No man ever wetted clay and then leftit, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.~Plutarch
Chapter 3 ~Quotations AboutFear
You block your dream when you allowyour fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary ManinMorrissey
Nothing in life is to be feared. It isonly to be understood. ~Marie Curie
Decide that you want it more than youare afraid of it. ~Bill Cosby
Fear is a darkroom where negativesdevelop. ~Usman B. Asif
Keep your fears to yourself but shareyour courage with others. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Panic at the thought of doing a thingis a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins
The one permanent emotion of theinferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, theinexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ~HenryLouis Mencken
There is a time to take counsel of yourfears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. ~George S.Patton
Many of our fears aretissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry usclear through them. ~Brendan Francis
There is much in the world to make usafraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.~Frederick W. Cropp
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